Wanted PRC-25 or PRC77 Radio

[Sentryduty]

The sputnik, those things could be all sorts of fxxxxx up when set up in the dark, daylight breaks and its so lopsided you wonder the antenna wasn't tapping the top of the CP tent.

[browningautorifle]

Often we'd just use a bayonet tied into the wire and thrown up over a tree limb. Just shoot a compass bearing, choose the direction you wanted the signal to go and maybe it would work...

[Bruce_in_Oz]

The Dipole was the "Antenna, lightweight" a simple, but versatile piece of kit that could be "flown" as a horizontal or vertical dipole, Inverted "V" or a single, centre-fed "L" . A somewhat "longer" version was available for the HF radios.

The 292 is the big, adjustable ground-plane job on the tall mast with the "interesting" guy-line system. Can also be "launched" into trees, and suspended from a "string", but the trick is to not get it snagged. The variety of antenna elements supplied in the kit mean it can be used from the top of the HF band to almost the top of the VHF band.

"Coolest" HF antenna I ever used was a farm fence. Clamp the "active" leg from the transmitter to the top strand of a barbed-wire fence: (Does not work very well with fences using steel star pickets). The "ground" was a LONG piece of wire laid on the ground at right angles from the fence, (ideal in country where the soil is very dry, or when you don't want to attract "unwanted attention" by hammering a long, metal "ground-stake" into the dirt).

[browningautorifle]

ground-plane

That's right, the ground plane antenna...I forgot about that one. We seldom used the HF sets. The airborne did though...

[muffett.2008]

............as to antenna's, getting dropped in the middle of the outback by a chopper with an oil leak to lighten the load.
With only a flex antenna is no fun, climbing to the top of a paperbark to try to extend the range, complete with the red ants that frequent those species..........you can understand my need to carry beer.

[Bruce_in_Oz]

"you can understand my need to carry beer."

For the purpose of enhancing the preparation of the "D" pack, of course.

It was amazing how a small supply of "secret herbs and spices"; paprika, Tabasco, cumin, etc. could liven up "luncheon meat, type 2" or "tuna in oil".

One bloke used to regularly make a passable chocolate rice pudding from the standard contents of a 24 hour pack: Freeze-dried rice, bullet-proof chocolate, condensed milk and finely crumbled "cereal block", all cooked up in a "pan set, messing" over a Hexamine stove.

Flash-backs!!

[browningautorifle]

the preparation of the "D" pack

I'd almost forgotten the Aussie rations, as issued in Canungra and Tin Can Bay...the caramel bar for energy... Tubes of sweetened dairy thing...curry with your rice.

[Aussie48]

The big sucker that said "Look at Me Look at Me" see if you can lob one in on me

Dick

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Finely crumbled cereal block was he in Armoured and used the Cent or Leopard to finely crumb that concrete block Ah the memories or is that shudders

Dick

[browningautorifle]

the memories or is that shudders

Occasionally there will still be a scent that will bring back the memories of these things...

[Sarge]

Not sure, but I think I have all the various pieces & parts for the 25 & 77s to use as both back pack and vehicle mounted.
Never got around to getting the jeeps & 3/4 ton restored so they are all stacked in the back of my garage along with the VRC & VRQ stuff.
Back in the day when I started all this manuals were no problem, I just went down to pubs section and got new ones.
Sarge